Improvement in jacketed butter-packages



E. J'.,& M. SCOFIELID.

JACKETED BUTTER PACKAGES. .1 ,953 Patented March 27,1877.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

EZRA J. SGOFIELD AND MARION SOOFIELD, OF HARTFIELl), NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN JACKETED BUTTER-PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. [88,963, dated March27, 1877 application filed March 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that we, EZRA J. SooFIELD and MARION SGOFIELD, ot thevillage of Hartfield, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York,have invented certain new and valuable Improvements in Butter-Packages;and we hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the constrnction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figuresof reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of this invention, showing the partsseparated vertically. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a centralhorizontal section, and Fig. 4. is a vertical section of the same.

This invention has relation to packages for the safe and economicaltransportation of butter; and it consists in the construction and novelarrangement, within a wooden jackethoop, extending from top to bottom,and having narrow strengthening-hoops at its upper and lower edges, of ametallic bucket, having flat ears extending upward for thefasteningloops, an uncovered bottom level with the lower edge of thejacket-hoop, and a rabbeted bracingtop, as hereinafter shown and.described.

The object of this invention is to provide an inexpressive package fortransporting butter, which shall have the necessary metallic impervioussides and bottom, and shall be sufficiently protected from being jammedat the sides and top.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the metallicbucket. This is made in tapering form from the top downward, and isprovided on opposite sides of its upper portion under the bead with flatears 2, which serve as bearings for the swinging angular loops f, and atthe same time do not obstruct the passage of the bucket into its jacket.

B designates the jacket-hoop. This is made of thin wood bent in circularmanner to form a hoop of the shape of the side wall of the bucket, andof sufficient height to extend from the head at the upper edge of thebucket to the bottom thereof. This jacket-hoop has its fibers runningaround the bucket, and is made to fit the bucket tightly when the latteris slipped into it, the bottom of the bucket being then level with thelower edge of the jacket, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. This edgeof the jacket is strengthened by the addition of an exterior narrowhoop, c, and a similar narrow hoop, a, is placed around and secured tothe upper edge of the jacket, as shown in the drawings.

0 represents the top or cover, consisting of a plane circular board,having its edge rabbeted underneath, as shown at m, to extend into theopening of the bucket, and serve as a brace, pressing the metallicmargin out on all sides against the jacket. The top is strengthenedacross the grain by cleats e e, and is fastened to the bucket by turningdown over its edge the loop fastenings f, which may engage with studs,or be secured by means of tacks driven into the bucket top.

We are well aware that it is not new to incase a metallic can or bucketin wood, and hence we do not claim such invention broadly.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of the removable protecting hoop-jacket B andmetallic bucket A, diminishing from top to bottom, and secured togetherby forcing the metallic bucket into the wooden hoop jacket,substantially as specified.

2. The butter-package, consisting of the metallic bucket, having theflat earsz and angle loops f, the rabbeted top 0, and the bent-hoopjacket B covering the side of the bucket, and having its lower edgelevel with the bottom thereof, as specified.

E. J. SOOFIELD. MARION SOOFIELD.

Witnesses MATTHIAS SHEPARD, MORGAN L. PARKHUST.

